老艺人曼弗雷德·派克特为了改变马戏团的处境建议经理加一个大象表演的节目，可他自己在表演空中飞人时，失足摔断了脖子，轮到他的女尔莱妮接棒用父亲的思想进一步改编马戏团的节目。对她来说这无疑是一种考验，她开始制订改革马戏团的计划，但在经济现实面前低头屈服，把马戏改造成电视上的常备节目。此时，莱妮的好友去世，她继承了好友的财产…

A mini-sequel to German director Alexander Kluge's 1968 Golden Lion winner Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed, The Indomitable Leni Peickert continues the slice-of-life tale of down-on-her-luck Peickert (Hannelore Hoger), who in that earlier film (many will remember) made the mistake of investing in a "socially …